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help with nose cone for model aircraft

danielbaker1981 — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:15:10 GMT

can anyone advise how to create this as a hollow shape to 3d print it. i cannot find any tutorial's on it as it is quite a odd shape. any help would be much appreciated.

Re: help with nose cone for model aircraft

jeff_strater — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:21:07 GMT

you have a duplicate thread here: help-with-creating-a-nose-cone-for-a-model-aeroplane - let's keep the discussion on this thread if we can to avoid duplicate responses.

The short answer is Loft to a Point, screencast coming soon

Re: help with nose cone for model aircraft

jeff_strater — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:29:14 GMT

here is a quick screencast. If the starting shape is not exactly a circle (say, an ellipse), you can use different geometry. But, the key is to loft to a point, with "point tangent" specified, then use Shell to make it hollow

Re: help with nose cone for model aircraft

danielbaker1981 — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:50:46 GMT

Thanks Jeff,

would it possible to do it to a conic curve? as the nose cone is is not same shape all the way round.

thanks again

Re: help with nose cone for model aircraft

jeff_strater — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 21:54:09 GMT

you should be able to do any kind of curve you want for the large end. If by "conic" curve, you mean Fusion's conic curve, yes, that should work, but I think you'd have to make two of them. If it were me, I would probably just use a fit point spline or a control point spline for that use. You'll have to do some precise measurement and likely a lot of trial and error to get it to fit correctly, but it should be possible from a modeling point of view.